Yor, the Hunter from the Future
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Yor, The Hunter From The Future is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie
director Antonio Margheriti
(also known as Anthony M. Dawson) and starring Reb Brown
, and was pieced together from a 4-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television.
The setting is a mixture between prehistoric
and futuristic
, borrowing elements from numerous popular franchises of the time. It has been released on DVD
in Germany.
The film is listed in the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide. It was also nominated for three 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards
: Worst New Star (Reb Brown), Worst Musical Score and Worst Original Song ("Yor's World").
, as Yor, jogging around the stone towers of Cappadocia
, Turkey while a rock ballad plays in the background. In a nearby village, Kala, a seemingly primitive cave-woman, and her older protector Pak are hunting. Suddenly, they are attacked by a Stego-Ceratops. Yor appears apparently from nowhere and kills the dinosaur with his axe, drinking some of its blood immediately afterwards. Yor is befriended by the village and together they cut the choice meats to be feasted upon in a celebration.
While Yor is there, a band of cavemen with bluish skin attack the village. Only Yor and Pak escape. Yor immediately swears to get Kala back. Yor and Pak track the blue cavemen to their lair where Yor shoots a giant bat with his bow and arrow. He uses the dead bat like a hang glider to storm the lair and charge out the back of the cave with Kala after flooding sections of the cave, accidentally killing everyone inside, committing double genocide upon the villagers and the species of the blue cavemen.
Kala and Pak decide to follow Yor in his adventure to find his origins. Along the way, they find a mysterious society of sand mummies, led by a blonde woman with an amulet similar to Yor's.
Eventually, Yor and company make their way to an island surrounded by storms. There Yor discovers that his parents were from a small band of nuclear holocaust survivors, revealing the 'twist' that Yor's world is actually Earth after that nuclear holocaust, with the radiation apparently having somehow resurrected dinosaurs (this despite the title of the film already stating that this story takes place in the future). An evil man called the Overlord has taken control of the remaining nuclear technology with his android army. Yor then starts a battle with the Overlord and his android army. Yor defeats the Overlord's forces with help from Pak and Kala, then flies off into the distance with one of the Overlord's spacecraft, even as the Overlord's facility is in a state of self-destruction. Before the movie ends, the narrator proclaims, "Yor returns to the primitive tribes on the mainland. He is determined to use his superior knowledge to prevent them making the same mistakes as their forefathers. Will he succeed?"
soundtrack
CD on the BSX
label was released in 2011 and a Region 1 remastered widescreen
DVD
from Sony
on-demand was scheduled for release on September 6, 2011.
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
director Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti , also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72....
(also known as Anthony M. Dawson) and starring Reb Brown
Reb Brown
Reb Brown is an American actor.Known as superhero Captain America in the TV pilot/movies, he's also known for the 1983 cult classic, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, as well as the scifi film, Space Mutiny, and for the collaborations with director Bruno Mattei in films Strike Commando and Robowar ...
, and was pieced together from a 4-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television.
The setting is a mixture between prehistoric
Prehistory
Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...
and futuristic
Future
The future is the indefinite time period after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the nature of the reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist is temporary and will come...
, borrowing elements from numerous popular franchises of the time. It has been released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in Germany.
The film is listed in the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide. It was also nominated for three 1983 Golden Raspberry Awards
1983 Golden Raspberry Awards
The 4th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on April 8, 1984 at Third Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1983.-Awards and nominations:-See also:*1983 in film*56th Academy Awards...
: Worst New Star (Reb Brown), Worst Musical Score and Worst Original Song ("Yor's World").
Synopsis
The movie opens with Reb BrownReb Brown
Reb Brown is an American actor.Known as superhero Captain America in the TV pilot/movies, he's also known for the 1983 cult classic, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, as well as the scifi film, Space Mutiny, and for the collaborations with director Bruno Mattei in films Strike Commando and Robowar ...
, as Yor, jogging around the stone towers of Cappadocia
Cappadocia
Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province.In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine...
, Turkey while a rock ballad plays in the background. In a nearby village, Kala, a seemingly primitive cave-woman, and her older protector Pak are hunting. Suddenly, they are attacked by a Stego-Ceratops. Yor appears apparently from nowhere and kills the dinosaur with his axe, drinking some of its blood immediately afterwards. Yor is befriended by the village and together they cut the choice meats to be feasted upon in a celebration.
While Yor is there, a band of cavemen with bluish skin attack the village. Only Yor and Pak escape. Yor immediately swears to get Kala back. Yor and Pak track the blue cavemen to their lair where Yor shoots a giant bat with his bow and arrow. He uses the dead bat like a hang glider to storm the lair and charge out the back of the cave with Kala after flooding sections of the cave, accidentally killing everyone inside, committing double genocide upon the villagers and the species of the blue cavemen.
Kala and Pak decide to follow Yor in his adventure to find his origins. Along the way, they find a mysterious society of sand mummies, led by a blonde woman with an amulet similar to Yor's.
Eventually, Yor and company make their way to an island surrounded by storms. There Yor discovers that his parents were from a small band of nuclear holocaust survivors, revealing the 'twist' that Yor's world is actually Earth after that nuclear holocaust, with the radiation apparently having somehow resurrected dinosaurs (this despite the title of the film already stating that this story takes place in the future). An evil man called the Overlord has taken control of the remaining nuclear technology with his android army. Yor then starts a battle with the Overlord and his android army. Yor defeats the Overlord's forces with help from Pak and Kala, then flies off into the distance with one of the Overlord's spacecraft, even as the Overlord's facility is in a state of self-destruction. Before the movie ends, the narrator proclaims, "Yor returns to the primitive tribes on the mainland. He is determined to use his superior knowledge to prevent them making the same mistakes as their forefathers. Will he succeed?"
Home media
A remastered expanded Yor, the Hunter from the FutureYor, the Hunter from the Future (soundtrack)
Yor, the Hunter from the Future soundtrack LP was initially released in 1983 by Southern Cross Records. This contains music by both Guido and Maurizio De Angelis and John Scott, who was hired to do some additional music for the US version .A remastered expanded Yor, the Hunter from the...
soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
CD on the BSX
BSX
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label was released in 2011 and a Region 1 remastered widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
from Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
on-demand was scheduled for release on September 6, 2011.